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In liver fibrosis, dendritic cells govern hepatic inflammation in mice via TNF-alpha.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Nov 2009
Connolly Michael K, Bedrosian Andrea S, Mallen-St Clair Jon, Mitchell Aaron P, Ibrahim Junaid, Stroud Andrea, Pachter H Leon, Bar-Sagi Dafna, Frey Alan B, Miller George
Abstract excerpt
Hepatic fibrosis occurs during most chronic liver diseases and is driven by inflammatory responses to injured tissue. Because DCs are central to modulating liver immunity, we postulated that altered DC function contributes to immunologic changes in hepatic fibrosis and affects the pathologic inflammatory milieu within the fibrotic liver. Using mouse models, we determined the contribution of DCs to altered hepatic...
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